Bibliography / Media / Catalogues 2000 Spring 2000 World Sculpture News Vol 6 No 2 - Sydney Feature articles by Peter Harris A Wealth of Talent Page 27 “…..these are accomplished sculptors who any city would be proud to call their own. Add to them such new talent as Angus Adameitis…………..and one has a remarkable range of contributions from sculpture to Sydney’s lively cultural life.” The Power of the Miniature Page 32 “…….Hardly less impressive has been the work by newer sculptors such as …and Angus Adameitis who have all produced memorable works.” Page 33 photograph of “Tactonic 1999 oiled steel”200115 Jun 2001 Sydney Morning Herald Metro listing by Courtney Kidd “ANGUS ADAMEITIES AND RAQUEL MAZZINA Adameitis’s painted metallic shapes resemble soft sculptured steel………” Winter 2001 World Sculpture News Vol 7 No 1 – Article “The Importance of Being Small” at King St Gallery and Defiance Gallery by Peter Harris. One of the benefits and pleasures of these miniature shows is that they involve not just a pot-pourri of styles, genres and methods but a cross section of sculptors from all the generations. Beginners such as …… Angus Adameitis ….. fresh out of art school….26 October 2001 The Australian - anonymous article on Sculpture by the Sea “…Other highlights include Angus Adameitis’s Bed and Bandages, which recently received the Bryce and Benita Courtney Young Sculptors Prize in Sculpture by the Sea, Tasman Peninsula 2001.”2 Nov 2001 Sydney Morning Herald Metro article by Bridgid DelaneyPhotograph by Narelle Autio of Angus installing his work accompanies short article on Sculpture by the Sea.“Highlights in this year’s 95 piece exhibition include sculptors floating in the sea by Ross Philip and Nigel Washington, and Angus Adameitis’s steel sculpture on the cliff walk. Adameitis, aged 22, won last year’s Sculpture by the Sea Director’s Prize. He says that while his sculpture will be competing with the natural environment for attention he also designed it to “fit in” with the seascape and mesh with the formation of the rocks.”Summer 2001 World Sculpture News Vol 7 No 3 – Review David Teer, Russell McQuilty, Angus Adameitis, Brian Koerber & Hui Selwood at Defiance GalleryBy Peter Harris Only two years out of art school, Angus Adameitis has already impressed as a sculptor to look out for. In 1999 he won the Transfield Prize for Sculpture and in 2000 he collected the Director’s Choice Award in the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition. The talent that such recognition suggests was evident in the sculptures he exhibited in June. His six small table sculptures were made from fabricated and found pieces of steel. In most cases Adameitis oiled and painted the components but occasionally he left a found element untreated, so that a textural contrast in particular was established.Adameitis has demonstrated that he can create impressive sculptures from a few small components. In “Compression 1” (2001) especially, from just four small pieces of steel he managed to make the same sort of impacting forces, the same weightful engagement that Nigel Harrison creates from much larger elements. Compression and molding, in fact, are the distinctive features of this exhibition. Adameitis is obviously interested in the forces that can be generated within a sculpture by wrapping elements around each other or by laying one on another. The tension built up by the molding of elements, by the way molding alters but dies not entirely eradicate the former direction the element was taking, is another pre-occupation in Adameitis’s work. Molding – crumpling, bending or twisting – makes his “Homage to Hopmeier” (2001) a peculiarly Adameitasian tribute.2002 - New Contemporaries promotional brochure. Mention + photo of sculpture- 12 Sept 2002 Sydney Morning Herald Metropolitan Review of New Contempories exhibition by Anne Loxley. “Angus Adametitis’s ‘Compression II’ – a painted steel sculpture resembling a squashed section of car or a piece of machinery - has a brash, enigmatic quality.” - The Australian “Soft shoe shuffle for seaside art” Sculpture by the Sea Special Advertising Report, 30 October. “….. Among the most notable is 22 year old Angus Adameitus (sic) who is attending the annual Omi International Artist’s Colony residency in New York. He was in Milan on a scholarship last year. He has exhibited at two of the Bondi exhibitions and was a recipient of the Courtenay Young Sculptor’s Sculpture by the sea. Tasman Peninsular (sic)” - The Australian “Show sparks big sales” Sculpture by the Sea Special Advertising Report, 30 October.” Patrons (of Sculpture by the Sea) also receive a specially commissioned work from sculptor Angus Adameitis.”- Sculpture by the Sea 2002 catalogue – listing Page 21- Oct 20022003 -Winter 2003 World Sculpture News Vol 9 No 1 – Article The Call of the Coast by Ian Howard. Includes photograph of sculpture “Eastern Horizon”.“Angus Adameitis, a regular exhibitor, submitted “Eastern Horizon” in 2002. This stuning work of bent, twisted, and cut scrap metal surprised even the most conservative visitor. They just couldn’t help but appreciate its beauty and rightfulness of place. Of course the artist had labored over the exacting casualness of the composition and polished that, just found patina, till it shone in the sunlight, but another resonance of the site was at work here. Even today, the occasional large piece of metal – an old washing machine, a car door – somehow escapes the recycling bin and finds its way, to be discarded at the edge of dry land. Not so long ago, as with many harbors, rivers, and foreshores, this area of Sydney was a dumping ground for rubbish. It was the back-door to the working and ever expanding city that needed dumps for its rubbish more than panoramic ocean views. A strong claim can be made that Adameitis’s work bought back these memories, as distasteful as they were, of the material and expressive qualities of rusting steel lying up against a pristine coast, but in this new and legitimized form a redressing took place and the painful memory laid to rest.” - Press release 22 August 2003 also mention in the SMH arts page Metro column 25 Aug Sculpture in the City - Bringing art to the people Sculpture in the City will be on show again this year from 25 August until 5 September, with an exciting new format. “The idea behind the exhibition is to expose the beauty of sculpture so that it touches everyone in this city,” says exhibition curator, David Handley. “We have reconfigured the exhibition from its previous two incarnations to create the first major invited artist sculpture exhibition in Australia, giving five Master, Major and Emerging Sculptors space in Martin Place in which to play,” says Handley.The exhibiting sculptors are:Master: Ken UnsworthMajor: Michael Le Grand (Head of Sculpture at ANU) and Richard GoodwinEmerging: Claire Healy (well known in urban art world) and Angus Adameitis (at 23 already recipient of 2 overseas scholarships to Italy and the USA)the (sydney) magazine – August – watch this face article by Matt Buchanan photograph by Sahlan Hayes. “Bashing, melting, crushing, thrashing. For sculptor Angus Adameitis, testing the metal is all in a days work. Pity the metal. That’s the first thing you think when you look at an Angus Adameitis sculpture. Pity the poor, bulied, strectched, protesting metal. Even a cursory glance at his latest assembly of found metal objects, the unnervingly alien ‘Prudential Doubleflight’ ………”30 Oct Sculpture by the Sea - Catalogue listing page 47

Background We were introduced to Angus’s work by Campbell Robertson-Swan in November 1999 at the final year exhibition for Students at the National Art School. However it was not until February 2000 at the group exhibition “Stepping Up” at Defiance Gallery when we were interested in Angus’s work that Campbell suggested that we purchase the sculpture still on display in the grounds of the National Art School. Paul Hopmeier and Angus installed “Untitled” on the terrace of our unit at Ultimo then later shifting it to the Sculpture garden at Sussex Inlet.

ArchiveSee Defiance Gallery , King Street Gallery, Media archive,Photographs2000 series of photos of 'Untitled' on display at National Art School2001 series of photos and colour negatives of Angus & Paul Hopmeier installing 'Untitled'2005 Opening of solo - photo of Angus and another of Angus and Maxc.2007 Angus carrying plaster statue of Jesus

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